So the new SAT will come out in the spring of 2016 and I will be transferring in as a junior into the Fall of 2016 (current high school senior) into a (hopefully) top-20 school. I didn’t do the best at the SAT’s (1970) especially for the colleges I have been looking at (Cornell, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Berkeley). How will the new SAT effect transfer admissions?
It won’t. They will use the SAT that is appropriate for you.
@erinsdad
So if I retook it after the new one came out, it wouldn’t effect my admissions chances right? Because the new one is arguably easier than the old one. Would colleges think that I was just waiting for the easier one to come out? Or would they not care?
The new score would be compared to the new matrix. The old score to the old matrix of scores. You think the CB and colleges haven’t figured that out?
This.
@marvin100
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what does that mean exactly? If I only send the new scores, then what other options would they have?
If you only send your old SAT, they will compare it to the new SAT. Your 1970 will be translated into whatever the new equivalent is. Here is a link with comparison of scores with the new SAT (post 2005) and the old SAT (pre 2005). I cannot tell you what the new comparison will be when the new SAT is implemented but this is an example of what we mean: http://www.gamedayconsultant.com/news-articles/new-sat-act-test-score-conversion-chart
@HeyItsNick
But what if you only send the new ones? I am asking (since the new SAT is easier) would colleges care that I only sent the new one?
Then they’ll only judge you on the new one. You’re worried about nothing.